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Production is the recording itself. Casting, a pace the book can live with, pickups when a line is wrong, and a master measured against retail numbers. Publishing that master to Audible is the next job, and we will not pretend they are the same afternoon.
The session
A memoir often wants the author, if the author can hold a chapter without going flat or rushing the part that still hurts. Fiction with a large cast often wants a narrator who can keep those voices distinct for eight hours. We do not default to the cheapest booth and hope charm will cover a mismatch.
Retail audio is usually a 192 kbps constant bit rate MP3, with peaks under about minus 3 dB, RMS in the range the distributor publishes, and a noise floor that does not hiss under the quiet lines. Room tone belongs at the start and end of each file. We work to the sheet the store will use, not to how the headphones felt in the room.
Order of the work
What you can ask for
A narrator left alone will invent a tone. You should hear a sample from your pages before the full book is recorded.
What you leave with
The recording should not be trapped in one shop because we only exported their private format.
Decisions
Right for many memoirs and for a nonfiction voice people already know from talks. We will tell you if the read is tiring, rushing, or too close to the microphone. A coach for two chapters is cheaper than a book you have to scrap.
Right for most novels. You approve a sample of your prose. Character voices get a note before chapter ten invents a new accent.
Possible when the book is built that way. It costs more and it needs a script that marks the handoff. We do not add a second voice to make a single-narrator book sound expensive.
House rule
A file that only sounds fine on the headphones it was mixed on is not finished.
Before the booth
A finished hour of audio is several hours of session once you count mistakes, water, and pickups. A 80,000-word novel is often nine to ten finished hours. We schedule from the word count, not from a hope that it will be a weekend.
Yes, as a separate step, once the master passes. Say so at the start if you want both. The rights in the narrator contract have to allow the stores you named.
You do, if the narrator agreement says so. We do not start a session on a contract that leaves the files with the booth.
Before a voice is booked
We will tell you if that voice fits the book. Call (833) 688-4166 or write [email protected].
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